I’ve seen this video of Timothy Roscoe at USENIX ATC '21 recently and was very interested in multikernel OSes.

While Barrelfish is abandoned, it seems that Kirsch is his successor.

However, since I’ve seen this video I wonder what changed since the keynote, why it doesn’t seem to be a thing for mainstream kernels and if there was any roadmap/will to expand mainstream kernels like linux to embrace the whole hardware.

Do you have any pointers/ideas or resources to share on this?

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    4 days ago

    Huawei Harmony OS is multi kernel.

    In the sense that it can run android Linux and I think . Exe files. Kinda cool tbh. Not sure if this is in the same boat as the projects you mentioned.

    Too bad the sale of these is banned in the USA. I really want to try out the os.